Burning through the waffles

I have an awesome recipe for gingerbread waffles with blueberry syrup. I used to make it every Thanksgiving and Christmas morning. But since moving to Geneva, we've had the waffle iron in storage.

After our 18-month waffle fast, I pulled out the iron for some regular waffles. Not sure what the voltage is, but it burnt out the 500-watt transformer I had it connected to after only a couple waffles.

So I had to hook it up to the 1000-watt transformer our computer is hooked up to.

Not sure I'm going to be making waffles anytime soon unless I can find a Euro-iron.